The Daybook

POTUS Events: Top Cops and Fit Workers

President Obama delivers remarks on health-care reform, May 11, 2009. (Photo -- Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)By Sarah Lovenheim
President Obama starts his day with his routine presidential briefing at 9:45 a.m., followed by his economic briefing and then a meeting with senior advisers.

Around 2:30 p.m., he speaks at a ceremony paying tribute to Top Cops award winners in the Rose Garden. An hour later, the president is joined by Vice President Biden in a meeting with General Raymond Odierno and Ambassador Chris Hill. At 4:30 p.m., Biden and Obama meet with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

Obama's evening commences with a poetry-reading event, held in the East Room at the White House. First lady Michelle Obama joins him.